FILE G · GLOSSARY · Everyday officialese

Belt Shop

MEANING

The unauthorised village outlet retailing liquor as an extension of a licensed shop — illegal, endemic, and the subject of every excise drive.

Kirana and pan shops selling for a licensed A4 shop's counter. Action runs against the parent licensee — raids, penalties, cancellation — with a toll-free line (14405) for complaints; gram panchayats increasingly pass their own resolutions against them.